First Inorganic Chemistry Conference Erlangen

ICCE 2015

02.08.2015 – 04.08.2015

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Lecture Halls H1 – H3

Egerlandstraße 3

91058 Erlangen

Germany

ICCE 2015

Date: 02.08.2015 – 04.08.2015

Venue: FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Lecture Halls H1 – H3

Egerlandstraße 3

91058 Erlangen

Germany

Timetable:

Monday 03.08.2015

09:10 – 09:15 Welcome and Introduction

09:15 – 10:40 Session 1

09:15 – 10:00 Prof. John F. Berry (University of Wisconsin–Madison) –

Two-Center/Three-Electron Sigma Bonds in Main Group and Transition

Metal Chemistry

10:00 – 10:20 Harmen Zijlstra (FAU Erlangen) – Well-Defined Boralumoxanes as

Convenient MAO Modeling Compounds

10:20 – 10:40 Katharina Kastner (University of Ulm) – Lacunary dodecavanadate

clusters: versatile building blocks for transition metal functionalized

polyoxovanadates

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:45 Session 2

11:00 – 11:45 Prof. Julien Bachmann (FAU Erlangen) – Turning lead into gold:

Materials and nanostructures in electrochemical energy conversion

11:45 – 12:05 Michael Rosenzweig (FAU Erlangen) – Molecular and electronic

structures of reduced uranium bipyridine complexes as stable synthons

for U(II)

12:05 – 12:25 Marina Reiter (TU München) – Amine-bis(phenolato)cobalt(II)

Catalysts for the Formation of Organic Carbonates from Carbon

Dioxide and Epoxides

12:25 – 12:45 Jürgen Pahl (FAU Erlangen) – Cationic Magnesium Complexes with

Weakly Coordinating Ligands in Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch Break

13:45 – 15:15 Session 3

13:45 – 14:30 Dr. Carl Deutsch (Merck KGaA) – α,α,α-Trifluoroethyl-hemiaminal

ethers – A versatile building block connects industry and academia

14:30 – 15:15 Prof. Sven Schneider (University Göttingen) – Functional Pincer

Ligands for Cooperative Bond Activation and Catalysis

15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 – 18:30 Session 4

15:45 – 16:30 Prof. Ingo Krossing (University of Freiburg) – On Reactive Cations: From

Esoteric to Useful…

16:30 – 16:45 Announcements

16:45 – 18:30 Poster Session

18:30 – late Conference Dinner

Tuesday 04.08.2015

09:10 – 09:15 Welcome and Introduction

09:15 – 10:40 Session 5

09:15 – 10:00 Prof. Melissa A. Denecke (University of Manchester) – Synthesis of

V-shaped Bistriazinyl-Phenanthrolines

10:00 – 10:20 Arne Glüer (University Göttingen) – A highly active Iron Catalyst for

Ammonia Borane Dehydrocoupling at Room Temperature

10:20 – 10:40 Eva Zolnhofer (FAU Erlangen) – An Intermediate Cobalt(IV) Nitrido

Complex and its N-Migratory Insertion Product

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 Session 6

11:00 – 11:45 Dr. Horst-Werner Zanthoff (Evonik Industries AG) – Oxidation catalysis

– Insights from process to materials

11:45 – 12:30 Prof. Matthias Driess (TU Berlin) – From Silylene Ligands to New

Mechanistic Insights in Homogeneous Catalysis

12:30 – 13:45 Lunch Break

13:45 – 15:30 Session 7

13:45 – 14:30 Prof. Nicolai Burzlaff (FAU Erlangen) – Chelating Ligands as PHD

Inhibitors – ‘EPO in a Pill’

14:30 – 15:15 Dr. Louise Natrajan (University of Manchester) – Developing Optical

Imaging Applications Involving Transition Metal, 4f and 5f-Element

Containing Compounds

15:15 – 15:30 Poster & Presentation Awards, Farewell